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I Suppose We Think Euphemistically That All Writers Write Because They Have Something To Say That Is Truthful And Honest And Pointed And Important. And I Suppose I Subscribe To That, Too. But God Knows When I Look Back Over Thirty Years Of Professional Writing, I'm Hard-pressed To Come Up With Anything That's Important. Some Things Are Literate, Some Things Are Interesting, Some Things Are Classy, But Very Damn Little Is Important.

I Write Much Better In The Nonconfines Of The Early Morning Than I Do The Clutter Of The Day.

I Miss The Comraderie Of Live Television - The Fact That You Were On The Set, You Worked Closely With The Director And The Cast, That I Miss. But, No, I'm Happy, I'm Happy Doing Film.

I Guess Requiem For A Heavyweight As Old As It Is Was As Honest A Piece As I've Ever Done.

Essentially, The Scripts Are Not That Different. Let's Say, In Literary Terms, It's The Difference Between Writing Horizontally And Writing Vertically. In Live Television, You Wrote Much More Vertically. You Had To Probe People Because You Didn't Have Money Or Sets Or Any Of The Physical Dimensions That Film Will Allow You. So You Generally Probed People A Little Bit More. Film Writing Is Much More Horizontal. You Can Insert Anything You Want: Meadows, Battlefields, The Taj Mahal, A Cast Of Thousands. But Essentially, Writing A Story Is Writing A Story.